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any war. OUR LIBERAL CREDIT PLAN APPLIES TO EVERYTHING IN OUR STORE. Now is the time you need credit most and Rothert's
are willing to help you. You pay nothing for this privilege as our prices are lower than strictly cash stores can afford to quote.
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DIES AFTER IX>XG IM/NESS j
I'reston 11. Heffietingcr. Well-known
Mccbanicsburg Man
Meehanlcsburg, Pa., Dec. 4.—After:
being confined to his bed for three!
and a half years by spinal trouble,
Preston H. Hefflefinger died last even- j
ing at his home in West Poorer street.
He was 54 years old and a lifelong <
resident of this place. He was a mem
ber of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and the Washington Camp, i
No. 164. Patriotic Order Sons of |
America. Mr. Hefflefinger was an em- j
ploye of the Hlckok Manufacturingr
Company, of llarrisburg, until the:
time of his illness. He is survived by j
liis wife and one daughter, Miss Ruth,
at home: also one brother, Harry. of>:
llarrisburg: and four sisters, Mrs. S.!
J. Mount*, of Meehanlcsburg: Mrs.'
Annie Norton. Mrs. Carrie Plank and
Mrs. Fred Becker, all of Springfield, [
< >hio. The funeral services will be
held on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. |
the Rev. J. J. Resh officiating, assisted !
by the Rev. Dr. H. N. Fegley. Burial j
will be made in the Meehanlcsburg!
Cemetery.
Bread
and brown sugar ~~
Remember how you used to like it when you
were young? Nowadays the kids don't have it
as often as they should, because of the price of
butter. Give them
Armours Silverchurn
fi Oleomargarine
under the brown sugar and
you won't have to stint them
on this delicious lunch. It is
L. sweet, rich, wholesome and
| | inexpensive. Costs less and
- <.l tastes better than most butter.
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 4, 1914.
ITALY IS XOW READY
Fully Prepared to Enter War If
Contingency Is Forced
By Associated Prtss
Rome, Dec. 4.—Many members of
Parliament consider that the state
ment of Premier Salandra in Parlia
ment yesterday, in which he advised
that Italy maintain her attitude of
watchful and armed neutrality and
made a reference to what he termed
the just aspirations of Italy, together
with a demonstration by the members,
means that Italy is now ready.
Deputy I>abriola, a prominent mem
ber. summarized his opinion of the
sitting by saying that "one word more
from Salandra would have meant a
declaration of war."
Others think that the phrase of the
Premier regarding the aspirations of
Italy was misunderstood and that he
might instead have alluded to the ex
istence of an Italo-Austrian agree
ment delimitating the Italian frontier
by the peaceful annexation of a por
tion of the province of Trent.
Bible Background Makes Clear
Operations of War in Turkey
The Conflict Has Penetrated to Garden of Eden, to
Mount Sinai and to Mount Ararat; Fighting
Where Moses Fought
(By The Religious Rambler.)
When newspaper dispatches lm-1
pinge on the Bible narratives, there)
is at once a stimulation of interest:
on the part of millions of readers, i
That is why the extension of the pres
' ent war into Bible lands quickens the I
' attention of countries persons who!
pay scant attention to the details of
the struggle in Europe, especially so,
far as names and places are con-;
cerned.
Now the most luminous comments 1
upon the war are not provided by the i
"military experts" or the special cor
respondents, but by the old Bible It
, self. The cablegrams have not fur
nished any commentary upon the
Turkish campaign against Egypt so j
j illuminating as the live books of
Moses; and It needs- the Old Testa- j
' ment to make interesting the scant.
1 war news from down the Persian
iGulf way. The fighting between lius- ;
sians and Turks in Armenia is mean
ingless, geographically, to the aver
age reader: until he is reminded that
'it centers neur Mount Ararat, where,
i Noah's Ark rested after the flood,
j Fighting Near the Garden of Eden '
War news from the cradle of civili
iration, and the traditional site of the
i Garden of Eden. has been scanty. We
i only know that the British have
{cleared the Turkish forces out of the
Persian Gulf region, and from the
shores of the Shat-ei-Arab, the river
which is formed by the confluence of
the Tigris and Euphrates. The city
of Bosra, which is the center of the
world's date market, has been cap
tured by the British.
All the littoral of Arabia —and. in
deed, of the whole of Asiatic Turkey,
for that matter—is controlled by
British ships. The new Indian navy,
which is a recent unit of the British
sea forces, has paroled the Arabian
coast line from the land of Cr of the
Chaldees, back of Bosra, to the realm
of the Queen of Sheba, which is the
hinterland of Aden. The prime work
of this fleet has been to prevent gun
running into India, bat the cultivation
of friendly relations with the Arab
sheikhs along the coast has also been
an important function. Now that the
issue is at last fully and fairly joined,
it is expected that the Arabs, who
i have been sporadically fighting the
Turks for generations, will throw in
thelrj lot with Great Britain, rather
than' with the Ottoman Empire.
Not only will the land of Abraham
and of the Hebrew and of the Heb
rew exiles (many thousands of whose
descendants still dwell in the region
of the captivity) come under British
| control: but also the old home of
1 Queen Esther and the Prophet Dan
iel, in Southern Persia. Apparently
this region also is to fall to Britain
In the collapse of the Islamic poli
tical power.
Fighting Where Mosses Fought
According to the cables, Sinai
■ Peninsula, which once reverberated
with the thunders of the hour when
! the law was given to Moses, is now
I echoing the noise of cannon and rifle
fire, for there the Turks and the Bri
tish are lighting, as the former try
jto force a way to the Suez Canal.,
' Sinai is the oldest of the holy places
|of monotheistic faith. There the i
i children of Israel received the Law, '
and there they became a nation. To I
the Christian it is the most sacred j
I spot on eartii, except Mount Calvary.
fTo-day the Sinai Peninsula is a parti
of Egypt and' controlled by the Bri
tish Government. The boundary line
runs from a point on the Medlterran
; ean coast near El Arish, a short dis
tance below Gaza, where Samson car
ried off the gates, to the head of the
Gulf of Akaba, where a mean vil
lage of mud houses, about the ruins
of an old fortress, stands on the site
of a city of ancient might and splen
dor. The length of the Egyptian
coast line within what is known as
j Palestine, from El Arish to Port
Said, is more than a hundred mil«s.
All this land of Sinai is waste and
well-nigh waterless. A recent book
by l>r. F. E. Hoskins "From the Nile
to Nebo." is the most vivid descript
ion of it. There are no towns in it.
.and the inhabitants number about
six thousand Bedouins. The Russian
(Church maintains, at the base of the
Mountain of the Law, the Monastery
of St. Catharine, a fortified enclosure
• originally erected by the Emperor
Justinian, at the request of the Chris
: tians.
' : No clearer knowledge of the diffl
•j culties of travel and subsistence in
'■this region can be gained than by
i reading the Book of Exodus. The
Turkish commissariat will have even
greater problems to face than Moses,
for they will have no supernatural
■ supplies of manna, meat and water,
, as had the Israelites. In addition to
' being harrassed by the Bedouins, as
, were the Jews, the Turkish expedi
i tion will have drilled British troops,
i camel corps, infantry- and airmen to
> contend with. The sand will prevent
i• or make difficult the transport of
' heavy artillery.
; Tile Crossing «>f the Waters.
Worst of all, from the Turkish
i standpoint, will be the deadly fire of
>jthe British fleet, which can direct its]
>I guns upon the ancient caravan
; (routes, which must still be the line of
, jmarch, from ships in the Mediterran
ean, in the Suez Canal, in the Bed
siSea and in the Gulf of Akaba. The
i. coast is low-lying sand, with no shel
rlter or fortifications; and no bases of
I retreat nearer than Jerusalem, which
lJ is almost two hundred miles away.
- ! Thoughts of the passage of the Bed
e|Sea by the Children of Israel recur
i; to the reader's mind as he perceives
i that the Turkish expedition against
fi Egypt will have to cross the waters
- |of the Suez Canal, a good-sized river
V j—and cross it, too. in the face of fire
ijfrom both naval and land forces, for
-la British railway runs along the en
tire length of the Canal, on the West
ern side, making possible the quick
.1 {distribution of troops from Cairo.
1; There is no railroad at all on the
n Sinai Peninsula.
v, To cross this body of water the
e {Turkish forces would seem to require
-'a miracle like that which succored
yj Moses and his host. Boats and tim
ber for pontoons or rafts could scar
s cely be carried over the cruel desert
j marches of hundreds of miles; and
I there is practically no timber on the
Sinai Peninsula that could be used.
|This campaign is not to be thought
lof in the same terms as that In Bel
jgium or Poland. Those are in civil
jized, settled regions; this is in a sandy,
i waste, without a single town or city,
and as primitive as it was four thous
and years ago.
Nowadays not to know the Bible
story and its background is to be ig
norant of the setting of the most in
teresting phase of the most modern
war.
HUNTING TRIP ILLUSTRATED
Special to The Telegraph
Dauphin. Pa.. Dec. 4. —An illus
trated talk will be given Saturday
evening by P. B. Young, of Camden,
N. J., at the Presbyterian manse. Mr.
\oung, who is a member of the Pres
bvterian Church here, will show views
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and talk of his recent hunting trip to
Wyoming. It is expected tto be very
interesting and the admission will be
10 cents, proceeds for the benefit o?
the church.
STANDARD BEARERS' PAGEANT
Special to The Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dec. 4. — Before
a crowded house a pageant, entitled
"The Torch Bearers." was given in
the Methodist Episcopal Church last
evening, which was a most impressive
and instructive missionary lesson. It
was given under the direction of Miss
Elizabeth C. Campbell, of Scranton, a
returned missionary, with a cast of
seventy-five persons in costume. In
addition to the pageant a reading was
given by Miss Ida G. Kast. a vocal solo
by Mrs. H. A. Surface and a mono
logue by Miss Campbell. The proceeds
were for the benefit of the Standard
Bearers Society.
THOUSAND-POUND HOG
Special to The Telegraph
Selinsgrove, Pa., Dec. 4.—Hundreds
of visitors have been at the D. Nor
man App farm, in Monroe township,
during the past fortnight to see tho
thousand-pound porker raised by that
painstaking husbandman. lie was
three years old in March. His extraor
dinary size is accounted for by his
bulk and the careful attentions Riven
him.
NKW HOMF FOR LODGE
Special to The Telegraph
Selinsgrove. Pa., Dec. 4.—Work was
started this week to provide a modern,
permanent home for the local camp.
No. 732, Patriotic Order Sons of Amer
ica, when carpenters began remodel
ing the building which the lodge re
cently purchased.
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